{"id":280212,"date":"2026-02-04T12:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T12:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/280212\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T12:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T12:22:10","slug":"mayo-driver-detected-for-notable-bank-holiday-speeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/280212\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayo driver detected for notable bank holiday speeding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Drivers in Mayo, and the West of Ireland were detected for notable breaking of the speed limit on roads over the St. Brigid\u2019s Bank Holiday, according to Garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na carried out an enhanced Road Safety and Traffic Enforcement campaign over the bank holiday, from Thursday January 29th until Tuesday February 3rd.<\/p>\n<p>Over this period, two people died on Irish roads, bringing the total for this year to 13 so far.<\/p>\n<p>From Friday until Monday, Garda\u00ed and mobile\/fixed GoSafe cameras detected nearly 3,500 motorists speeding. The highest volume of speeding was detected on Monday, with 800 cases noted.<\/p>\n<p>In Mayo, one driver was spotted doing 113kph in an 80kph zone on the N59 in Westport. In Sligo, a motorist was detected doing 154kph in an 80kph zone on the N16.<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, nearly 200 drivers were arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of an intoxicant, with nearly 400 drivers detected for driving while using a mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p>Over 660 vehicles were detained by members of An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na, 50% for no insurance.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Drivers in Mayo, and the West of Ireland were detected for notable breaking of the speed limit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-280212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}